Word: fourteen
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Webster's advantages of early education were exceedingly slender, for he worked on his father's farm in summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study...
...learn from the "Aegis." a Bicycle Club, a Lawn Tennis Association, a Handerand Haydn Society, an Opera Company, a D. A. A. and Foot Ball, and Base Ball Associations, all apparently very prosperous. Class teams are evidently more prominent at Dartmouth than here. Boarding clubs are very numerous, fourteen being mentioned. The manner and size of the Greek letter fraternities is surprising to us Harvard men. With us they are "way down," but at Dartmouth, and I suppose at most other colleges as well, they...
Prof. Harkness, of Brown University, has been elected Director for the ensuing year, and his Directorship will be followed by the appointment of Prof. D'Oogee, of the University of Michigan. The interest shown by various American colleges is constantly increasing. Fourteen colleges are now enrolled in membership, showing an increase of two. The committee are anxious to have notice given that the valuable opportunities offered by this classical school are at the disposal of all American students traveling in Europe, but membership in the institution must be procured in the regular way provided by the committee, namely, by application...
...accept the score, 6 to 4 of the Yale-Princeton game, Yale has made this year 501 points to her opponents 14. Ten of the fourteen points were made by Rutgers...
...standing on the floor before him. After a few historical sketches he was thanked for his granting the ground for the building to stand on thirty years before, and aiding in its construction at least half as long. In reply the Emperor stood up and read a speech of fourteen lines, rejoicing in the completion of a work which he had always had at heart and trusting that multitudes would make full proof of the institution, and learn there alike science and patriotism. He was greeted with a student song, and a triple shout of "Hoch !" Then several persons prominent...